Want a peek at what the next generation cloud computing operating system might look like? Join us for this brief course exploring the pre-release Ubuntu Core OS and its secure, ground-breaking package manager, Snappy. Core offers all the bullet-proof reliability and eco-system you're used to from Ubuntu server distros, but it does it more efficiently than ever...and it's built bottom-up with all the major cloud computing platforms in mind. And Snappy, by isolating apps and frameworks from each other, achieves unprecedented system stability and flexibility.We'll discover how to launch and connect with our AWS-based Core instances using EC2 API tools, how to navigate Core's file system, how to manage application packages, and how to control key OS configurations using simple scripts.